{"id":245172,"date":"2026-10-10T09:21:33","date_gmt":"2026-10-10T14:21:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/10\/light-reads-electron-spins-inside-porous-crystals-opening-path-to-quantum-chemical-sensors"},"modified":"2026-10-10T09:21:33","modified_gmt":"2026-10-10T14:21:33","slug":"light-reads-electron-spins-inside-porous-crystals-opening-path-to-quantum-chemical-sensors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/10\/light-reads-electron-spins-inside-porous-crystals-opening-path-to-quantum-chemical-sensors","title":{"rendered":"Light reads electron spins inside porous crystals, opening path to quantum chemical sensors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/light-reads-electron-spins-inside-porous-crystals-opening-path-to-quantum-chemical-sensors.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>University of Glasgow researchers are part of an international collaboration that could lead to a new generation of quantum sensors. The team, which included researchers from the University of Tokyo, University of Glasgow, University of Sheffield and Kobe University, has for the first time used light to read out the magnetic spin of electrons trapped inside a porous crystalline material known as a metal-organic framework (MOF).<\/p>\n<p>The team\u2019s work builds on previous research into a method of detecting electron spins using light called optically detected magnetic resonance, or ODMR. The technique has attracted attention as a useful method for reading out spin qubits in quantum sensing.<\/p>\n<p>The development marks an important step toward using MOFs, which have been regarded as promising materials for quantum sensing applications, to detect chemical substances with extraordinary sensitivity in future sensing devices.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>University of Glasgow researchers are part of an international collaboration that could lead to a new generation of quantum sensors. The team, which included researchers from the University of Tokyo, University of Glasgow, University of Sheffield and Kobe University, has for the first time used light to read out the magnetic spin of electrons trapped [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,1617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-245172","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chemistry","category-quantum-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245172","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=245172"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245172\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=245172"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=245172"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=245172"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}